blaarghalltheusernamesare,
Often the forum members here with good technical knowledge can only give you information in theory, since we don't have access to the hardware in question. So a bit of hands-on experimentation is necessary to sort out problems.
I suggest you just go ahead and install the calibration dotpet, then load the 2 modules I mentioned, and do some testing yourself.
Who knows, maybe the mouse keys will just work?

It's unclear whether your success depends on loading the 2 modules I mentioned; "usbhid" and "gameport"
so I did some further digging in the kernel configuration.
It turns out that Puppy's kernel supports a range of USB Human Interface Devices, with no less than 27 separate drivers available for different brands of device, including the hid-logitech driver for the gamepad mentioned in this thread. Any of these devices should be automatically recognised at bootup (by its device ID) and the relevant driver should automatically load.
So I think if blaarghalltheusernamesare was to run the "lsmod" command, the "hid-logitech" module will almost certainly be listed. The "usbhid" module is also likely to have automatically loaded.

So what of "gameport" module? I don't know. Maybe this adds some functionality?

blaarghalltheusernamesare wrote:

is it possible to use the rumbler on the rumblepad?

If the "force feedback" extra function is enabled in the kernel configuration, then yes ... but Puppy's kernel does not have this function enabled.
I might be able to compile an updated driver for this, but it will need to wait a few days.

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